I spent this past weekend at the Venetian Hotel Las Vegas with my brother and a friend. We were in town for the University of Minnesota and UNLV football game. We got a good deal on a rental car, so made the drive out from The Strip to Sam Boyd stadium Thursday night. We had […]
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A Stay at the Travaasa Hana Hotel on Maui
Maui hotels and resorts are plentiful, but few anywhere on the Hawaiian Islands can stand up to what Travaasa Hana has to offer. I learned that fact when I enjoyed their hospitality on my recent visit to the island. My stay at Travaasa Hana was one of the best – if not the best – […]
Relaxing with Beer and Munchies on Maui
Lounging over munchies at Maui’s Fairmont Kea Lani with a cold one from the Maui Brewing Company.
An Estes Park Hotel Stay at the Baldpate Inn Bed and Breakfast
I walked out of my Estes Park cabin at the Baldpate Inn to go for a hike at one of the two nearby trails in Rocky Mountain National Park. Two women were screeching about how something had just walked right up to the library door of the main lodge and then skittered across the driveway […]
A Stay at Maui’s Wailea Beach Villas
Maui hotels are a dime a dozen. There are so many great places to stay it is hard to choose. But picking the right one can set your vacation apart from fun to amazing. So how do you narrow it down? Well, with three little words: Wailea Beach Villas. Staying at the villas on the […]
A Weekend at the Pine Ridge Condos
I spent this past weekend at the Pine Ridge Condos in Breckenridge while attending the Travel Blog Exchange conference in nearby Keystone, Colorado. I initially was not going to attend, but when a combination of events happened practically at the same time – BlogWorld bought up TBEX and Pine Ridge offered me a complimentary stay […]
A Photo Essay ~ 31 Days of Denver
I spent the month of May documenting some of the sites I have regularly seen in the twelve years I’ve lived in Denver. I have also taken the time to capture a picture or two of some places I hadn’t yet seen. And I had plenty of time to ignore the overly-photographed locations and icons that are certainly […]
The Making of the Iakona
The plate was set down in front of me. My eyes were wide. I was looking at the sandwich to end all sandwiches. It was more pork than any one pig should ever have, and there it was, piled beautifully high on focaccia bread, all for me and my greedy claws. We called it The […]
